Shadow Boxing Art and Craft Creative

Unique in approach and content, this book presents specific definitions of the subgenres of creative nonfictionmemoir, the personal essay, literary journalism, nature writing, biography and history, and the nonfiction novel.Providing model readings to illustrate these definitions, this First Edition also offers practical writing exercises and strategies for readers to apply what they are learning in each subgenre.For professionals with a career or interest in writing, journalism, education, publishing, and/or media.

Kristen Iversen is the author of Molly Brown: Unraveling the Myth, winner of the Colorado Book Award in Biography, and the forthcoming Full Body Burden, based on her experience of growing up near Rocky Flats, a nuclear weaponry facility in Colorado. She has taught in the creative writing programs at Naropa University and San Jose State University, and currently teaches at the University of Memphis.

When is Nonfiction not Creative?
Types of Creative Nonfiction
Memoir
Excerpt fromThis Boy's Life
Excerpt fromThe Liars' Club
Excerpt fromSilent Dancing: A Partial Remembrance of a Puerto Rican Childhood
Mother From Heaven
Student Readings
Lost at a Love-In
Dancing Girls
Chester
Personal Essay
Thank You in Arabic
Texas Women: True Grit and All the Rest
The Stone Horse
Student Readings
Fifteen Minutes
Coming to Shelter
Waiting Is the Hardest Part
Literary Journalism
Excerpt fromFear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream
Excerpt fromThe Professor and the Madman
On AIDS
Excerpt fromComing Into the Country
Student Readings
All That Stands Between Me and Heaven Is My Husband's Fork
Are You My Mother?
Escape from Italy, or No Fear and Loathing in the Rome of the North
Nature Writing
Excerpt fromRefuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place
Excerpt fromAccident: A Days News
Excerpt fromThe Solace of Open Spaces
At Cloudy Pass: The Need of Being Versed in Human Things
Student Readings
The Tolerable Naturalist
Naupaka In Bloom
Biography and History
The Devil and Ambrose Bierce
Excerpt fromSon of the Morning Star
In Search of History
Excerpt fromMolly Brown: Unraveling the Myth
Student Readings
Rebecca Tucked Away
Dear John Barry
The Nonfiction Novel
Excerpt fromIn Cold Blood
Excerpt fromCloudsplitter
Excerpt fromBecoming
Excerpt fromThe Hours
Student Readings
Rossiya East
Talk Story
The Writing Life
The Writing Life
So Long Ago, So Near
On Keeping a Notebook
Journal of a Solitude
Appendix
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Shadow Boxing Art and Craft Creative Nonfiction

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